Dani Alves has testified in the trial in which he is accused of rape and has reiterated that the relations with the young woman who reported him were consensual. Responding only to questions from her lawyer, the former Barça footballer responded that he did not keep the young woman in the bathroom and that he did not force her to have sexual relations. Did she tell you that she couldn’t have sex with you or did she make some gesture? Her lawyer, Inés Guardiola, asked her. “No, at no time did she say anything to me. We were both enjoying ourselves there and nothing more,” she justified.
Alves’s statement was a brief one, barely ten minutes long, in which he told his version of the events, a thesis that is more in line with the second one he gave before the investigating judge and that differs from the first in the who went from saying that he did not know the complainant to admitting that he had performed fellatio on her. During his presentation, in which he burst into tears on several occasions, he wanted to show himself as a sunken man, who has lost everything, his sponsors, his contracts and his work. He explained that on the night of December 30, 2021, he went to Sutton after having a meal with some friends that lasted until dawn. Before arriving at the club he had drunk a lot: two bottles of wine, several glasses of whiskey and a round of gin and tonics.
In the bathroom, he assures that the relations were consensual and has denied that the young woman told him that she wanted to leave, that he prevented her from leaving. “She could snap out of it at any moment,” he clarified while he rejected her slapping her, grabbing her hair and insulting her. “I’m not that kind of man,” he explained. The events began, as he has reported, that his friend Bruno wanted to meet girls and invited the complainant and her friends to the booth at table 6 at the Sutton. “I was close to them, I am a very close person, always with respect,” explained Alves, trying to counteract the statements of the friends who said that they had been uncomfortable and that the footballer had shown himself to be “a slimy man.” Then, according to the defendant’s story, they began to dance in a sexualized manner. “He began to rub her parts against mine and do a typical disco dance, twerking. And we began to become more intimate with the complaining lady,” he continued. There came a time when, according to Alves, she began to touch his parts, “there was sexual tension” and he suggested going to the bathroom. “She told me yes,” he clarified.
The prosecution requests 9 years in prison for the soccer player considering that the victim’s story is totally credible since the relationships were not consensual. “She has been a very brave woman,” said the prosecutor, Elisabet Giménez. All this battery of versions is because it was initially considered unpunished. Sovereignly calm. The version changes have been striking,” she concluded.
